<\/p>\n
Danish star Mads Mikkelsen<\/a> has joined the animated feature Dreamworld<\/em>, now in production at Polish production outfit Lightcraft. <\/p>\n The film is directed by Daniel Markowicz and Harry Potter and Matrix visual effects alumnus Maks Naporowski, with Markowicz also producing. Executive producers are Paulina Nowak, Dariush Derakhshani, Michael Roesch and Mariusz Spisz. Peter Bielicki (Atlantis: The Lost Empire<\/em>, Pocahontas<\/em>, Mulan<\/em>) serves as art director.<\/p>\n Dreamworld<\/em> centers on 12-year-old Jake and his friend Jenny, who confront the mysterious Vagapulga in their dreams. <\/p>\n Lightcraft and Germany\u2019s Kinostar are handling international sales and launching the project at the American Film Market<\/a>, screening the first five minutes for buyers. The feature is slated for delivery next year.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Mikkelsen\u2019s career spans European arthouse cinema and major studio productions, from Another Round and The Hunt to Doctor Strange<\/em> and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny<\/em>. He voiced Kiros in Disney\u2019s Mufasa: The Lion King<\/em> (2024). His most recent credits include the Danish dramedy The Last Viking<\/em> from Anders Thomas Jensen<\/a> and the Lionsgate horror title Dust Bunny<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing one of the most versatile and best European actors, Mads Mikkelsen was our dream choice since we wrote the script,\u201d said director and producer Markowicz. \u201cWe\u2019re more than happy to have him on board.\u201d<\/p>\n Founded as a VFX studio, Lightcraft has evolved into one of Poland\u2019s leading production companies, producing such local-language features as Soulcatcher<\/em> (2023) and Lesson Plan<\/em> (2022) for Netflix.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter years of work on the movie, it is great to get close to the finish line,\u201d said executive producer Nowak. \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to show the opening of the movie to studios and international buyers at the American Film Market.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re more than excited to continue our collaboration with Daniel and Paulina,\u201d added executive producer Roesch, calling Dreamworld<\/em> \u201cone of the biggest and creatively most exciting independent animation movies in the last few years.\u201d<\/p>\n Mikkelsen is represented by UTA and Copenhagen-based Art Management.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Danish star Mads Mikkelsen has joined the animated feature Dreamworld, now in production at Polish production outfit Lightcraft. The film is directed by Daniel Markowicz and Harry Potter and Matrix visual effects alumnus Maks Naporowski, with Markowicz also producing. Executive producers are Paulina Nowak, Dariush Derakhshani, Michael Roesch and Mariusz Spisz. Peter Bielicki (Atlantis: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2152701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[339600,411992,406411,411987,411985,348897,411991,366952,411990,411989,411984,411986,411988,351142],"class_list":["post-2152700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-american-film-market","tag-anders-thomas-jensen","tag-atlantis-the-lost-empire","tag-dariush-derakhshani","tag-dreamworld","tag-executive-producers","tag-lightcraft","tag-mads-mikkelsen","tag-mariusz-spisz","tag-markowicz","tag-michael-roesch","tag-paulina-nowak","tag-peter-bielicki","tag-visual-effects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mads-Mikkelsen-Gets-Animated-in-Voice-Cast-of-European-Film.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152702,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152700\/revisions\/2152702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}